Convertible valley and hip composition shingle



F. BASEL CONVERTIBLE VALLEY AND HIP COMPOSITION SHINGLE July 17, 1923. 1.461.886

Filed June 14, 1922' Patented July 17, 1923.

\ UNITED STATES r PATENT, orries.

HALLORAN, OF MINNEAPOLIS,;. MINNESOTA.

convEn'riBLE VALLEY am) Hi? controsrrron SHINGLE.

Application m d June 14,

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANK BAsEna citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolisyin the county of Hennepinand State of,Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Valley and Hip Composition Shingles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Thisinvention relates to a roof shingle especially adapted tobe used in thevalley of a roof*or along the hip of the roof. While the shingle canbe made of various materials it is preferably made of a material now commonly used in artificial shingles which comprises various compositions oftar and asphalt, and the like.

It has'heretofore been the common prac' tice to place a bent metal strip along the valley'of the roof forming a roof gutter or to place a similar strip along the hip 2 of the roof. This practice not only required a special construction at the valley or hip but also marred the uniform appearance of the roofing material.

It is an object of this invention, therefore, to provide a shingle which can be used in overlapping relation in the valley or along the hip of a roof in combination with and as a continuation of the regular standard shingles.

It is a further object of the invention to rovide such an artificial shingle having its top and bottom edges diverging downwardly or rearwardly from the shingle center line and having the side edges thereof 40 extending perpendicularly to its top and bottom edges. These and other objects and'advantages of the invention will fully appear from the following description made in connection 4 with the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views, and in which,

Fi 1 is a plan view of the roof valley showing the shingles thereon;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the hip portion of the roof;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the shingle of the present invention;

1922. serial no. 56 8, 168.

4 is a view as seen from the bottom of Fig. 3;and

F1 5 and dare "diagrammatic views "showing themethod of forn'iing the shingle.

:Referri'ngto the drawings, especially Fig. 1, a valley offa roof having sides A and B is illustrated, the "said sides having laid thereon courses of artificial shingles 1.

These shingles are illustrated as the standard 'four-in-one type having the dividing'grooves 2 extending partially therethrough from the bottom edges.

The shingle'ofthe present invention is shownas 3 in Figs. 3 and 4 and comprises two side portions adaptedto be bent along the longitudinali'center line 4. The side portions of the shingle will be bent tolie flat against the sides of the roof valley and the 'side edges 50f the shingle extend normal to tlietop and bottom edges thereof and are adapted to contact and abut against the edges of the standard shingles 1. The respective shingles 3 will be overlapped the same distance as the shingles 1 so that the structure of the roof will be continuous and uniform in appearance across the valley of the roof.

If the shingle 3 is used on the hip of the roof the same is merely reversed in position, the long edges thereof becoming the bottom edges. The side edges 5 abut in the same manner against the artificial shingles shown as 6 in Fig. 2, the shingle 3 being overlapped in the same manner as already described. It will thus be seen that a uniform structure and appearance of the roof is continued across the hip of the roof. With the described structure it is unnecessary to provide a metal gutter extending longitudinally of the roof valley, or of a metal strip extending longitudinally of the hip of the roof.

It will be apparent that the angle of the top and bottom sides of the shingle with the longitudinal center line will vary with roofs of different pitches. The said angles are determined in the following manner.

Referring to Figs. 5 and 6, and assuming a roof of pitch or 8 units rise in 12 units of width, the triangle 0 will be marked out by means of a square or other instruments having a base of 12 units length and its altitude of 8 units length. The hypotenuse of this triangle will then be approximately 14;; units. The triangle D is then laid out having its base of 14 units in length and its altitude of 12 units in length. The strip of material 7 of a desired width is then ,laidwith oneof its'parallel sides: extend ing along the hypotenuse Tofthe' triangleD and the'side of 12 units in length is con-' tinued across said strip attheflinebl until it intersects the line e -e which is the center manner described; bylaying out the proper triangles; The shingles "are. then cuti from the strip 7 and theisides 5 outto extend perpendicular tothe top qand bottomfedges thereof. It will, of course, be apparent that a pattern of the shingle could be first made and the shinglethereafter cut frorna sheet with the proper die. With shingles so constructed the top andbottom edges will, when the shingleis in position, extend parallel to the topand bottom edges of the standard shinglesfl l a. V a

From the above" description it is seenthat menace licant has provided a device having reat uti ty and one'that'can be easllyan inex ensively made and that will materially re ace the cost of roof construction; The

roof forrned at the same time, will. be more uniform 1n appearance thanif the old'construction of used. It will, of course, be understood that variroo f gutteror hip plate were ouschanges may bemade in the form and proportions of thedevice. and in the method 0 making the same without departing from the scope of apphcants invention, which,

shown and described and ap ended claim n 'hat'is claimed'isz- A composition shingle for the Valle? comprising a sheetzof flexible ma teria having top andbottom edges divergset forth in the ing from a longitudinalcenter line along which line the sheet is bent, theside ed es of said sheet being perpendicularj -to" its top and bottom edges whereby the sheet can. be but about its centerline tofvarious angles and the top and bottomedges thereof can always-lie in horizontal planesso that theshingle can be used for rddfs of slightly yarying pitches and for hips and valleys of diiferentangles. v i

In testimony whereof I. atfix my signa- I ture a v FRANK BASEL I [generally stated, ,consists' in ,thamfatter f a roof hip or 

